And it is likely that standard tools, including return routability and
white lists, will work less and less. I've now received spam that had a
valid From address from within my own organization - if you have enough
email addresses, that's easily accomplished.
Pretty soon, receiving email will require secretaries again, making the
problem a $10/hour instead of $100/hour problem :-)
Carsten Bormann wrote:
Jim Fleming wrote:
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame57.html
Is the person in that picture you, Jim?
(In case this is unclear, this is a rhetorical question, no reply
solicited.)
Back to the topic: Perry has hit the nail on the head.
As another person with a moderately well-published mail address, I can
attest that the problem simply can no longer be ignored.
In Europe, spam (more precisely: automated unsolicited communications)
will be outlawed EU-wide on 2003-07-24 (IANAL).
That does not help with the large amount of Chinese, Korean, and US
spam, though (and Europe so far has not been a significant source of
spam, anyway).
Maybe it *is* time to develop technical solutions that will assist the
legal ones being deployed.
It is certainly useful to think beyond mail, here -- automated
unsolicited communications on your IP-phone will be even more of a
problem than with mail.
Gruesse, Carsten
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